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On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
from City Hall Nothing demonstrates the connection between the Working Families Party and the Working Families Organization like the power the non-profit has over the Party’s political decisions. The Organization’s confidential New York City Coordinating Council Constitution & Rules and a not-for-distribution voting memo obtained by City Hall—backed...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | yesterday
City Hall has an in-depth, investigative look at the Working Families Party in New York, a progressive political party that endorses Democratic candidates through New York's quirky election laws that allow politicians to run on multiple party tickets. It's not uncommon for national political entities to have separate nonprofit and PAC divisions, but the Working...
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Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | yesterday
City Hall’s November 29 issue has this very lengthy and detailed report on how the Working Families Party raises money in New York state, and how it is part of a network of organizations that enhance the effectiveness of each part of that network. Thanks to Rick Hasen of ElectionLawBlog for the link.
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Election Law (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another cautionary tale about modern fusion politics in NYC....
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
According to Jacob Gershman in New York Magazine, a movement is growing to mount a challenge to the political dominance of the Working Families Party: "With the pro-labor Working Families Party on the rise, a coalition of New York business elites is laying the foundation to counteract its influence with a political operation of their own. The plan is to...
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Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... for the Queens Public Library, credits this work ethic to growing up in a large Irish Catholic family in Astoria: the examples set by his mother, who worked at the check-out counter of two different grocery stores, his father, a press operator for the New York Times, and his step-father, a public school custodian. Van Bramer’s parents were also both active union members, which has...
